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Submitted by Keith Taylor

March 14, Qingdao – Jinan.

Alain was pleasantly surprised to find a quality cappuccino at the Qingdao train station this morning. This made us all happy. After a smooth ride on a wonderful high speed train, we were met at the Jinan station by Professor Jason Gu from Dalhousie’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Jason is visiting research collaborators at Shandong University. Actually, Jason’s projects have been the main basis of our relationship with this leading university of Shandong Province, but we are in the process of expanding the scope of our cooperation agreement. Shandong University occupies six different campuses with over 60,000 full-time and 40,000 part-time and distance students.

Dalhousie’s Jason Gu (left) with Keith, Alain and Chenxi in front of the credo of Shandong University.

We had a fruitful discussion with Vice-President Hongxiang Lou, a Professor of natural products chemistry, and Dr. Nan Zou, the Director of the Department of International Affairs, identifying areas of commonality in the two institutions. There was considerable interest in the enhancement of opportunities for international experiences for graduate students. They offer 47 of their masters programs fully in English, which makes it a lot easier for our graduate students to fruitfully spend time there.

Read the rest of this post at the Eastern Horizons blog.